it's our actions that are the problem
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Printmaker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 07 May 2002 00:43
Subject: Re: Authorial Intervention
| You are both wrong *grin*
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| God is an invention of man and most of the world's current
| difficulties arise from people arguing about whose got the
| best invisible friend.
|
| I vote let's get rid of the God myth and start taking
| responsibility for our own actions.
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|
| Josie
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| PS Alison, I like that idea of the God in the novel being
| the AUthor. Do you, as the Author?God get to enter into any
| discourse with your 'people'?
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|
| Erminia Passannanti wrote:
| >
| > >At 11:49 AM -0700 5/5/02, passermin wrote:
| > >>>>>How do you revitalize the Author's role and figure,
| > >>>>>>after so many year of decomposition?
| >
| > On Mon, 6 May 2002 09:12:24 +1000, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
| > wrote
| >
| > >Erminia, if we really were in a Godless era, the world would be a
| > >very different place. God is all over the place, and the
| > >disturbances caused by God's alleged absence don't seem to have been
| > >dealt with any better than since they were outlined by Nietzsche and
| > >others. I keep having the persistent hallucination that we are
| > >still, all superficialities aside, very much in the 19C. That aside,
| > >in my novel _I_, the Author, am God.
| > >
| > >Me, megalomaniac? Phsaw.
| > >
| > >Best
| > >
| > >A
| >
| > Alison,
| >
| > you are right, in a way, but, may I suggest that your perspective
vehicles
| > a strong religious outlook on the world, in that, whether or not God is
| > existent or interested in the World, we (men and women), behave well or
| > bad but accordingly (yet, being God, in your novel, this is
| > comprehensible ).
| >
| > And indeed, in a world where God has metaphorically died, there is
still
| > lots of religiosity going on. Mostly because when someone dies and is
| > being missed, that is the very moment in which he becomes even more
| > mythical of the times when he was present, encumbering.
| >
| > God is the World, and therefore he experiences a compresence with
itself.
| > We will never be able to make two separate creatures out of this
horrible
| > two headed monster (material and ethereal nature of the World).
| >
| > This if God is in the World because he is itself the World, and this if
| > God dwells in itself, whether alive or dead, being itself.
| >
| > God is dead because he committed suicide: he was too horrified about his
| > errors, too guilty.
| > erminia
| >
| > >--
| > >
| > >"The only real revolt is the revolt against war."
| > > Albert Camus
| > >
| > >Alison Croggon
| > >Home page
| > >http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/
| > >
| > >Masthead Online
| > >http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
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